The Light in the Window

by June Goulding

Book Overview

In Ireland, 1951, the young June Goulding took up a position as midwife in a home for unmarried mothers run by the Sacred Heart nuns. What she witnessed there was to haunt her for the next fifty years. It was a place of secrets, lies and cruelty. A place where women picked grass by hand and tarred roads whilst heavily pregnant. Where they were denied any contact with the outside world; denied basic medical treatment and abused for their 'sins'; where,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0091902053
• ISBN13: 9780091902056
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 7.7"